First Demon c1

After shocking...wake up. I couldn't sleep anymore. I mean there was a duel between a Dark Lord and a Demon in my head!

And somehow… with stupid luck on my side, I ended up victorious?

Whatever that Platinum Fire thing did. I feel much more self-confident.

I slowly got up from my bed, thankfully I have a room to myself. As the bed next to mine is empty.

No new 'neighbour'...hopefully any time soon, as in orphanage people have to share their rooms. Thankfully I don't live close to London if it was a bigger city then I would probably would have to share with more than one person.

Silently getting out of my room. The place was quiet and I didnt need to turn on the lights which is an amazing way to sneak around.

I already started to like my new powers or whatever they are.

Walking silently towards the bathroom I quickly noticed how silently I am walking even though I was not trying to sneak around in a literal sense.

Instead, I was walking normally yet, there is no sound, it's like I am a ghost.

Eventually, I ended in one of the available restrooms.

The first thing I did was to check myself in the mirror.

"Hmm… I think I didn't change much physically… my hair is still black, thankfully. Otherwise, there would be a bunch of questions about why my hair turned platinum. Sadly I can't make Targaryen jokes since Game of Thrones is not a thing any time soon." I sadly said that to myself before continuing my inspection.

Still, though… there are some changes. One could say that the facial lines got more defined, there are certain aura around me now. Which probably comes from that self-confidence.

And it would seem my eyes got slightly lighter, before this mess they were brown, now they looked light brown…

After checking my face I took off my t-shirt, that black stain is going to take time to get off… though.

"Damn…just damn… are those… refined muscles?" I said to myself as I checked my body in the mirror.

There is a small indication of a six-pack forming on the stomach, any excess baby fat was gone!

It was an absurd change to my body! Whatever that Platinum fire did it just burned out all that!

'Still… through… Whatever that fire as it was some sort of demonic essence? As demon simply melted away the moment I entered that Platinum fire.'

I continued to think about that event as I checked my body.

"I suppose this won't going to be that boring…" I said with a slightly more confident voice. Slowly I got over the shock of being attacked by a demon.

Not only I did come up top but, there is a high chance that I quite literally took the demon's power.

And to put cheery on top I was in Potterverse!

If this is truly Potterverse then there is a chance that other realities are just as real as my current world.

Meaning if I can grow in power somehow then I might find a way to travel between worlds. Potterverse is known to have very lax rules when it comes to magic.

'But first… I need to find a way to grow stronger.'

With a goal in mind, I put the shirt back on and left the restroom.

Once I was back in the main corridor I started walking back to my room. When I was walking toward the restroom I heard something, now I was hearing it again.

I was curious about this sound so I focused on it.

*Snore*

"Is that… my hearing is that good? Or it good better because I focused on it?" I curiously stroked my chin thinking how this works.

Do I send this energy into my ears subconsciously? Is there a way to properly control this Demonic Essence?

Instead of hearing, I decided to focus on my gaze.

"Whoa!" I subconsciously took a step when all of a sudden wall was in front of me!

More precisely it looked like I was standing in front of the wall!

Quickly snapping out of this the vision returned to how it was before.

"This...one is going take time to get used to!" I said that as I massaged my temples. It was quite freaky and my survival instinct kicked in that moment.

I could shiver going down my spine, my body reacted on its own when the wall was too close.

Subconsciously thinking that I am in danger.

Nonetheless, this was a fascinating discovery that required further testing.

~~~~~~Tommorow~~~~~~

Melanie Williams was curious when she saw that brat Lucas look slightly less annoying.

His sarcasm and cynicism was starting to get to her. No kid such age should be like that.

Still today however he was less sarcastic, and more… positive?

It's like he finally found a reason not to be an annoyance anymore.

'Maybe he finally found out what he wants to be when he grows up?' The brown-haired woman thought to herself.

Nonetheless, she found his new self… more cute?

She then noticed him being once again in deep thought. Melanie decided to bring him out of that silly habit of his. Lucas is too young to behave like that!

~~~

I spend the whole night thinking of ways to use this power I inherited from that Demon thing.

Same time since I was in Potterverse I tried to use magic.

Was able to cause a small accidental burst of magic. But, it was far too unpredictable. Not something recommended to be used inside a building.

For now, I should keep magic use to a minimum until I go to Hogwarts. And, yeah, I should be going there by age of 11.

Since my burst of magic are quite powerful. I mean I nearly send bed flying with nothing but a burst of fake anger.

And I think it was magic and not my demonic essence. Unless the demonic essence buffs the magic.

Probably is. Since demons should be magical? Right?

That's a completely unknown area since I never heard of demons in Potterverse.

"Lucas, it's morning you already thinking about something." I felt a hand on top of my head.

That moment I felt something... Like some sort of extra limb appeared which I can control. And it felt… I felt like it's some sort of food. I wanted to pull on this 'limb'! But, the next moment the hand went away from my head and I lost connection to this 'limb'.

'What the hell was that? I think, I think it's some sort of emotion? It's like the subconscious thing!'

'Of course! Demons are beings of emotions! And I can get stronger from 'eating' them!' That moment I realised what I need to do!

"I think first thing In the morning is the best time to think miss Williams," I said with a smile as I looked at the pretty caretaker.

For some reason, she is less… defensive around me? Did my demonic power already effected her? Curious.

"You look tired did something happen?" I asked her trying to see how much my power has affected her.

*Sigh*

"Teenagers. Clair and her friends got in trouble."

Oh, complaining about teenagers when you just passed that age yourself. Anyway, Clair? The girl who wants everyone attention. An obvious trait for a teenage girl who wants to be loved. A trait which is quite common in this place.

An easily exploitable thing…

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Whoa! Whoa! Where the fuck my train of thought go? Is that the influence of my new power!? Damn… I need to be careful…

Well, I don't think I will be able to resist this if I am to continue training my demonic powers.

"Well, that's nothing new. What did she do this time?" I asked curiously I wonder what did she do this time. Last time she ended up in a fight against another girl. Pity I wasn't able to see that. Girls fighting has that special feel to it.

"She has fallen asleep in the attic while playing occult with her friend."

I slowly nodded at her while hearing that.

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Wait! Occult? Did that bitch was the one who summoned that demon!? Need to check that place when I have a chance.

"That...quite silly of them. Attic isn't that warm for them to fall asleep." I said that while trying to fish for information.

"Yes. At least they were very apologetic. Still though they have detention and Clair has a test to catch up to." Miss William smiled brightly while saying that. Heh. So she a sadist. Nice to know.

It's quite something having such a long conversation with this beauty. Normally she would have already sent me on my way.

"I see. I won't be keeping you Miss William I still need to get my breakfast." While I would love to talk to her more. I need to understand my powers before I can do anything to her.

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Damn… my train of thoughts where are you going!

For a second I shook my head and walked to my seat. It seems the demon essence already has started warping my mind.

Still though… Do I need contact to drain emotions?

For a second I looked around and saw a teen sitting next to me.

My elbow slightly touched this teen's.

Once again I felt… Food.

That moment I had the urge just to drain this guy, but I decided against fully draining I have no idea what will happen if I am to pull everything so I decided to leave some behind.

So, I pulled, pulled close to ⅓  everything this guy had.

The moment I drained. I felt full. Like I just had a full course meal.

When I looked at the food in front of me I had no appetite at all, and this was quite bad… people complain if I am to bring full plate back to the kitchen...

Still though I was more interested in the guy next to me. He looked much quite subdued. Like he had no self-confidence and even had difficulties in eating.

Like he is not sure if he holding the spoon properly, being very self-conscious.

'Interesting so… I feed on his confidence? Or its something more? Is it...Pride?

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Yeah, it is Pride, I can feel it in my bones.

Now, however, I was in a pickle. I need to do something with the food.

Looking around for a bit. I started giving bits and pieces to kids who are quite a bit hungry and what they have is not enough. It's quite something else to see through them like that.

I believe it's another one of the abilities I possess. Demons should be beings who strive on Sins. While Gluttony is not my power. I can see through the fact what they want.

~~~

After dinner, I returned to my lair… room. And started to think about the whole emotion feeding thing.

Before I left I was able to observe the teenager which I drained pride from.

His friends did notice his changes and it's something which I should be careful about. I can't casually drain them. Not unless I find a way to drain from a distance.

Such a large shift in teen behaviour was noticed and if he had a girlfriend which is a common thing in this place. For some reason, alot of people have a girlfriend in 1980...

Anyway, if his female friend starts skulking around it can get out of hand before I am powerful enough.

For now. Much controlled feeding is in order.

Around the evening of the same day, I realised that I have 'digested' the Essence I have absorbed and found the consequence of this drain on my body.

The muscles were even more refined and I was feeling like brimming with energy. In other words, this was quite an intoxicating feeling.

A feeling which is hard to resist.

Nonetheless, for now, feeding has to wait as I need to explore the Attic.

I need to find some clues about the demon origin and if it's only a one-time thing or I will have competitors…

Once midnight hit, once again I left the room. This time I decided to test the limits of my stealth.

To my utter glee, I could easily run without making any noise!

Before long I was in the attic. It's quite a big place. Thankfully I don't need light or need to worry about time.

This means I can explore every single room. Without worrying about missing something.

Not that I needed to look hard as the 'ritual site' was quite close to the stairway.

Assuming the girls decided like that, because in case something gets wrong they can dash out.

Funny how people treat demons like they can escape from them easily. Treating them like some sort of a foe which one can be outrun. I didn't even feel or so how the demon was inside my head. The only reason I am like that is because of Old Man Tom.

How on Earth I was a Horcrux is beyond me. I wonder if Potter is one too? My parents by all means were regular Muggles living in some small town.

Since there is no way to figure this one out yet, I decided to focus on inspecting the site.

First of all the circle was... It was typical occult stuff with a star in middle. And some letters and words look like they are written in Latin.

I didn't pay much attention to it as the whole thing didn't emit anything. My powers did not react to it in any way.

So, without much bothering, I decided to clean it up. Why? Because I don't want anyone snooping around and trying to summon another demon.

Competition is not needed. Thankfully the circle was done with simple white chalk so erasing it was very simple.

After cleaning it off I looked for the source of everything here.

A book of some sorts should be around here somewhere. Unless of course, these idiotic girls did everything random. Which should be impossible...

A book, the beautifully caretaker of mine didn't say anything about a book. So, we can assume it should be around here somewhere.

Thankfully it didn't take long to look for it and just damn it was old looking quite fat with a simple star symbol on the book.

I opened the first page and saw the author. My eyebrow went up.

'Orion Black? How on Satans, demons and devils combined did a book written by a Black ended up in Orphanage!?' I thought with wide eyes.

'Unless it's on purpose… knowing Blacks and their idiocy, they probably wanted a Demon to be summoned so that it would lower the population of muggles…' I thought with a deadpan look.

The more I think about this the more It makes sense.

Nonetheless, I decided to check the content of the book.

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'Demons do not exist. So, doesn't God. There is only magic.

'Definitely words of a Black. The amount of arrogance the writing radiates even several decades after the book is written it can still transmit how the writer feels…' I rolled my eyes seeing the very first words from the very first page.

'I spend years using my magic to find some sort of realm where other beings live but to no avail this only means that there is nothing there.'

'Or you are just weak little man.' Once I rolled my eyes again.

'But, just because one can't find doesn't mean a wizard cant create one! This book has several rituals which can create some sort of being similar to a demon!'

'So… those idiotic girls gave 'birth' to a demon?' I internally chuckled same time understood what was going on.

'This means that I can partially relax. The demon was not summoned but created. Nonetheless, I will need to get rid of any information on their creation.' I thought to myself as I continued to read.

Not much information there is, the only thing for sure is that the idiot didn't try this himself. Instead, he just spend the whole time writing a book on speculations.

After skimming through the texts I looked at the circles.

'Hmm, I should test on summoning familiars through. Sounds fascinating.'

After checking that out I closed the book and looked around the room.

Apart from the book, there was nothing else there. I do however want to figure out how the book ended up here.

'But blindly asking is a stupid thing to do. I should, however, learn how to control my powers first. Once I can do that I should be able to use my demonic influence to worm the information out.' With some idea of what I wanted to do next, I decided to return to my lair...room.'

~~~

The next day I started a moderate version of draining. It was far easier than I thought. Especially when I am mingling in groups.

Not only I was able to drain them up. But, same time the changes were not that evident. Since I only took small portions of their Pride.

Thankfully, I did not try to drain alot more. As the same teen who I drained before in truth did have a girlfriend who was now asking questions about that incident.

Thankfully she thought it was food that is responsible for her boy toy downed personality.

I do hope that is not a permanent thing as If it's permanent then I will run out of food and other people will notice the weird behaviour of people.

This time however I need to drain 5 people just to feel full. This means that the dude I drained before was quite proud.

Well, whatever, I didn't even know his name…

Nonetheless, continued to observe my first victim for a week until I finally noticed changes in his personality. Well more like return of his old.

Perfectly honest I didn't know his old personality and this is my first time paying attention to a normie.

I was more interested in changes in myself.

After draining daily, I started to feel something in my gut.

Like it's some sort of clay that I can pull up from my gut.

At first, it was slightly difficult. But, with each drain and 'digestion', my control over this clay was getting better.

While I tried sending it to my hand and see what it is there was nothing. Same to my legs.

I thought that this power will give supernatural strength but nothing like that.

I suppose it makes sense, or not? Demonic stuff should not make sense to regular humans.

Still, though I continued to test it out. Eventually…

"Hmm."

My eyes slightly widened hearing my new voice. There was a secondary voice in the background! Like it's behind one second from mine one.

It sounded inhuman, if anyone is to hear it… it can quite guarantee I will be reported and sent to get exorcised…

If it can work in the first place? Not that I am gonna get try that route, even though I had this feeling it's not going to work for some reason.

Nonetheless, the new voice terrified me out and same time it sounded cool, reminding me of demons from Dragon Age!

Seeing that this energy can affect my voice I decided to send the energy into my ears.

At that moment some sort of filter was activated.

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"Right… I should probably test this when there are people around…" I wanted to facepalm for trying to hear something when there is no one in the vicinity.

Next was eyes. And that's where I can see the difference.

First of all my vision turned black and grey. And I can see platinum flames...through the walls.

This was quite frankly ridiculous when I focused on one flame and the vision just zoomed in right through the walls.

Seeing the person right in front of me. While it was in black and grey. In a way, it helped me considerably. My body didn't react to this zoom in how it was with my regular vision.

Which is a good thing. I don't need to 'train' this power in that way.

Nonetheless, this shows just how broken demons are. No wonder the demon which those girls summoned went right for me. Crossing multiple floors. Assuming it was going after Tom's pride as 'most powerful' wizard, the 'Darkest' Lord since wizards can remember. The guy should have had quite a bit of pride.

Pity that I couldn't drain him myself…

Or, I could... But, not yet… still, pity.

For now, I looked around and looked for a person with the largest amount of pride.

As expected it was the best my orphanage has to offer. Best looking people. People who I can assume has the highest marks in the school. The teens which are praised the most by the caretakers.

And… of course… the adults… the difference between them is quite frankly none. More likely the teens have stronger emotions than adults thanks to their raging hormones.

Still, though my beautiful caretaker has quite a bit of pride. I do wonder if she is so nice to me because I have the essence of Pride Demon? If I am to drain hers will her previous dislike return?

I do not wish to try that with her, instead I should test this on other people.

Once I get the hang of it then I can start doing...things.

For that, I decided to test my demonic talking. Yet, I know demonic whispering should be able to influence people same time it sounds far too disturbing.

That is why I decided to use my new vision and try talking with the essence flowing in my mouth.

"Yes…"

The moment I say that there was a torrent of platinum energy leaving from my mouth and rolling forward.

This discovery can mean that if a person is hit by this wave of Pride then the person's ego and pride can increase. And if my theory of bigger pride means easier to get along with then I can safely assume that person should not...probably… be affected by my demonic tone.

But, what about people who are not affected by the wave of pride?

That's why when nighttime came I was on the prowl once again looking for a single person.

Since I can see now Pride… in a literal sense, I can see who is sleeping and who is not. And who is walking around like I am right now?

While by 10 P.M lights are off, it doesn't mean everyone is sleeping. Some adults are here to make sure everyone is asleep. But, those evening caretakers are quite lax, like the rest of the people in this country.

And since I am can walk soundlessly like a ghost several times already I passed through these caretakers who are more interested in watching football than checking if kids are asleep.

While I did have an urge to drain their pride for such lax behaviour, I decided against though. Since I have to have physical contact. And that means discovery that I am out of bed.

Instead, I walked towards the toilets where another individual was there.

A perfect opportunity to test my Demonic Whispering.

~~~

Peter was quite excited with the opportunity that presented itself to him. His long time crush was feeling down for the past week or so, it's the perfect time to get in her good graces.

He was so excited thinking about the ways to get close to her that he forget the time!

So, he has to sneak out of his room just to take a piss!

"Sup?"

"Gah?" Peter nearly jumped out of his socks hearing a voice which came out of nowhere! And it was creepy as hell!

He quickly turned around and saw that smart-ass… cool kid.

"Kid. It's late why are you not sleeping?" Peter being a nice guy he is, he asked the boy. Not that he is concerned or anything of that sort.

"Just needed to relieve myself. What about you? Don't you have some test tomorrow, or something else? From the looks of it, You have something on your mind?"

'Since this kid is smart-ass maybe he can help with getting close to Clair!?' For the second Peter thought about it, he has no reason not to tell him! After all, two heads are better than one!

"Nah, nothing of that sort, most tests are over since last week. I am thinking more about getting close to Clair who was been grounded for a week. I hear she is quite depressed." Peter happily told the kid about his scheme.

"Oh, her. I heard she overslept her chemistry test and was grounded."

The teen quickly nodded. As he thought the kid knows his stuff! That's why he is a cool kid!

"Yeah! Do you know some ways to get close to her?" Peter shamelessly asked. He doesn't know as much a he would like. But, this kid is close to Miss William. So, he may be heard a thing or to! From the caretaker who is close to these girls.

"Well, Clair like active stuff. Like outdoor activities and she dislikes nerdy stuff. I guess you have that covered since you are part of the Football club right?"

"Hell yeah! Most of the males in school are part of the club!" Peter said that with a knowing snort. Only idiots don't play the national sport!

"Right. So, you got that covered. Still, though, why don't you show me some of your skills?" The cool kid asked Peter.

"Like what?" He is feeling quite confident whatever kid is going to ask him, he knows he can do it!

"Like push-ups and your jumping ability." The smart-ass kid asked And Peter's self-confidence swelled that moment.

*Snort*

"That's easy mate! We have to do those daily!" Peter chest bumped, before going down on his hands and starting doing push-ups and in the toilet…

After doing ten easily he started doing some high jumps…

"Not bad. I am sure Clair will be impressed. Why don't you do some nighttime running to build up your confidence?" The cool kid gave him some tips which Peter thought are great, he needs all the confidence by this point!

"Yeah, mate you are right! I will see you later! Thanks for the info! you are a great kid!" Peter by this point was pumped up beyond belief. As he quickly rushed out and to change and do some laps around the Orphanage.

Leaving behind a smiling kid, only the fact was that this kid's eyes were glowing platinum which Peter didn't see or he didn't care. It didn't matter.

The teenager by this point was so high on his confidence that he didn't care if it was nighttime, daytime or that it sounded silly.

"Well. That was quite tiring. I need to feed more before I can use this ability on a larger scale."

The teen slightly frowned while seeing himself in the mirror with his glowing eyes. He is checking the amount of essence he had left after hyping out the teen.

~~~

"Have you heard about some sort of food poisoning going around here?"

"Weird! only Adam got poisoned!"

"Tomorrow there is that Math test. *Groan*"

"Ha! Only you have one!"

"You saw that hot new girl in school?"

'Now this is quite cool ability to hear whispers like that!' I just entered the main living room. It's quite big. A bunch of teens spend time here discussing from the looks of it everything.

"Hey, it's that kid!"

"That smart-ass? Who is around Miss Williams? How this punk gets her attention?" One of the older teens said to his friend with a pissed off look. While he was on the other side of the room. I could hear it properly. Not only that but I can discern his emotional status in a way.

He was envious. I don't need to be an Envy demon to know that…

Nonetheless, this showed me that I can hear whispers and emotions behind those words in a way.

It's easier with more confident people. In other words, my theory on the more prideful person is the easier is for me to manipulate him or her.

"Did you hear what happened to Peter yesterday? The idiot went for a night run and he got caught by the security guard just outside the building!" One of the girls said while laughing.

"Running? Why would want to run in late Autumn? Is he nuts?" One asked with disbelief in her voice. One should be nuts to do that in the late evening!

I kind of agree with her. Morning runs are better than night ones anyway.

"Apparently, it's a cool thing to do!" The girl said with more laughter.

"He now grounded the same cool way!" Another one said while laughing even harder.

I could only snort hearing that. I only wanted to test the theory that he will listen to me. But, it turns out he did it without even bothering about the rest!

Few moments I walked to a slightly more secluded place and turned on my Pride Vision.

To my fascination. Without realising in truth, I helped that guy!

Now he is grounded with those three girls!

~~~

'That kid is genius! Why I didn't think of this myself!? All I needed to do to get close to her is to get grounded!' Peter thought to himself how smart-ass that cool kid is! He is a real brother!

"So, girls do you like doing cool stuff?" Peter asked the trio with the same amount of confident tone.

"Cool stuff? Like running in the middle of the night?" Clair said with amusement snort. What is wrong with this guy?

She finds his absurd amount of self-confidence amusing!

"Well duh! the fresh air! The thrill of not knowing what is in front of you!" The Teen said with a pumped-up tone.

***Amused Snort***